Cycling Australia president Klaus Mueller says there are parallels between White and his former colleague, Garmin-Sharp manager Jonathan Vaughters.

Vaughters has admitted to doping when he rode professionally.

But while in charge of Garmin-Sharp he has largely been responsible for introducing a respected anti-doping program that includes the use of athlete biological passports.

"He's (Vaughters) been such a vigorous opponent of doping in recent years, has set up a model program within the Garmin team to rid the sport of doping," Mueller said.

"It's been decided that he ought not to be kicked out of the sport and we think that's pretty analogous with Matt."

On Saturday evening White confessed in a statement to using performance-enhancing drugs and stepped down from his roles with CA and GreenEDGE.

"I am sad to say that I was part of a team where doping formed part of the team's strategy, and I too was involved in that strategy," he said.

"My involvement is something I am not proud of and I sincerely apologise to my fans, media, family and friends who trusted me and also to other athletes in my era that consciously chose not to dope."

The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) recently released a detailed report accusing Armstrong of being at the centre of an elaborate doping conspiracy, ruling he should lose his seven Tour de France titles and be banned from the sport for life.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) is yet to decide whether to ratify USADA's decision.

In the USADA report, White was named by disgraced rider Floyd Landis for taking EPO and testosterone.

White says that his involvement with doping made him want to take action to clean up the sport.

"I stopped my racing career because I had the opportunity to be part of something that had the potential to actually change cycling," he said.

"The ideas about a clean team that Dave Millar and Jonathan Vaughters spoke to me about back then, were ones that the sport desperately needed.

"History has shown that these ideas when fully implemented had a lasting effect on our sport. With key elements like 'blood profiling' which then was later taken on board as the 'athlete biological passport' and the 'No-Needles-Policy' which was also adopted by the UCI and WADA, a radical change for the better started to dominate the minds of a lot of athletes.

"These are legacies that were pioneered at Slipstream and they have had a real and lasting impact on cycling.

"In my roles with Slipstream Sports, Cycling Australia and now at GreenEDGE, I have always acted within the ethos of clean sport and I am very proud to have worked with the new generation of clean superstars."

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